About the Authors

Multi-Gas Contributors to Global Climate Change: Climate Impacts and Mitigation Costs of Non-CO2 Gases

Author Bios

John M. Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Reilly is the Associate Director for Research in the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT. Much of his 20-year research career has focused on the economics of climate change, including modeling of energy use and carbon emissions and on the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture as well as consideration of agriculture and forestry sinks.

He has published numerous articles, books, and reports on the economics of climate change and on other issues related to natural resources, technology, and energy use and supply. He was a principal author for the IPCC Second Assessment Report and has served on many federal government and international committees.

Prior to joining MIT in 1998, Dr. Reilly spent 12 years with the Economic Research Service of USDA, most recently as the Acting Director and Deputy Director for Research of the Resource Economics Division. He was a scientist with Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and with the Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Dr. Reilly received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and holds a B.S. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of the American Economics Association.

Henry D. Jacoby, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Jacoby is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. He has served as Director of the Harvard Environmental Systems Program, Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Associate Director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, and Chair of the MIT faculty.

Professor Jacoby is an applied economist who studies issues of policy and management in the areas of environment, energy, and natural resources. Currently, he directs a program devoted to integrated analysis of the threat of global climate change, including consideration of the natural and social science, as well as the policy and management studies needed to support the development, negotiation, and implementation of a domestic and global response.

He has served on the National Petroleum Council, the Climatic Impact Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, the AAAS Panel on Climate and Water Resources, the NAS/NAE Committee on Alternative Energy R&D Strategies, and on the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Committee that studied the "Systems at Risk from Climate Change." He has written widely on energy and environmental topics, and is the author of five books.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ronald G. Prinn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Prinn is the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, and is Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT. He serves as the Director of the MIT Center for Global Change Science and Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on Science and Policy of Global Change.

Professor Prinn, a faculty member at MIT since 1971, is the principal investigator for the NASA-supported Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (GAGE), which has measured continuously since 1978 the global rates of increase of the concentrations of trace gases involved in the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion. He is currently the chairman of the Steering Committee for the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and a member of NASA's Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee.

Professor Prinn received his Sc.D. in Chemistry from MIT in 1971, and holds an MSc in Chemistry (1968) and a BSc in Chemistry and Pure and Applied Mathematics (1967) both from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.